The Amateur's Kitchen Garden - Frame-Ground and Forcing Pit: A Handy Guide to the Formation and Management of the Kitchen Garden and the Cultivation of Useful Vegetables and Fruits - Hardcover

This text comprises a handy guide to the formation and management of the kitchen garden, and the cultivation of useful vegetables and fruits. This wonderfully comprehensive and concise guide contains much in the way of information that will be of great value to the amateur, as well as constituting a great reference book for the more experienced reader. Much of the information contained herein is timeless and still very much of use today. The chapters of this book include: 'The Formation of the Kitchen Garden', 'The Amateur in the Kitchen Garden', 'Pits and Farms', 'Selecting for the Kitchen Garden', 'Peas and Beans', 'Brassicas', 'Spinach', 'Seakale and Asparagus', 'Saladings', 'The Onion and its Allies', 'Celery and Celeriac', 'The Potato', etcetera. We are proud to republish this text here complete with a new introduction on vegetable growing at home.

A handy early guide to the formation and management of the kitchen garden and the cultivation of useful fruit and vegetables. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all gardeners and contains much information that is still useful and practical today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original artwork and text.